Archive: 03/2001
2001-03-01
- Powell's Middle East tour highlights crisis of US policy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- "It Began With a Lie": German TV report refutes government propaganda in Balkan War
- Layoffs continue to mount in US
- Slowdown in US economy to continue, says Greenspan
- Foot and mouth disease spreads throughout Europe
- Bush addresses the US Congress: An illegitimate president, a dubious surplus, a mounting social crisis
- Unresolved historical questions
- Federal police used to intimidate Australian Broadcasting Corporation staff
2001-03-02
- Britain's latest rail disaster claims 13 lives
- Canada mounts biggest-ever security operation for Summit of the Americas
- $45 million fine against pilots union upheld by US Supreme Court
- Arroyo attempts to shore up her grip on the Philippine presidency
- Japan gets credit downgrade as recession tendencies grow
- On the US-British bombing of Iraq
- Letters to the WSWS
2001-03-03
- Oxfam reports show adverse health impact of drug patents on developing countries
- Britain: Labour government bans 21 organisations under new anti-terror laws
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Fijian government declared illegal but refuses to resign
- Domino Sugar strike in Brooklyn ends in defeat
- Revealing old and enduring horrors
- An interview with the directors of the Austrian documentary Spiegelgrund
2001-03-05
2001-03-06
2001-03-07
- Political and social dimensions of the Turkish financial crisis
- A presidential family in time of war
- Australian prime minister reverses key policy as split looms in ruling coalition
- Britain: Hillsborough disaster families condemn payment to policeman
- Asian films at the Berlin Film Festival
- Taliban regime sets out to obliterate Afghanistan's cultural heritage
2001-03-08
- An expert's view on why foot and mouth disease has reemerged in Britain
- BP responsible for Papua New Guinea kerosene explosions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- The deadly consequences of Germany's refugee policy
- Europe's foot and mouth disease outbreak was foreseeable and preventable
- Why the rush to get US Vice President Cheney back on the job?
- Australian economy heads for recession
2001-03-09
- US Congress eliminates new workplace safety standards
- An unprecedented standdown of the Australian armed forces
- The case of Julie Hiatt Steele: the human cost of the Kenneth Starr witch-hunt
- The strange case of accused US counterspy Robert Hanssen
- Nick Beams replies to two readers on the issue of surplus value
- Britain: Labour delivers a pre-election budget
2001-03-10
- US Commission on Civil Rights charges "voter disenfranchisement... at heart" of Bush victory in Florida
- Marxism and the national question in Sri Lanka
- Rebel in need of a cause
- US forces conflict with KLA-backed Albanian separatists in Macedonia
- Letter from SK
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wahid's position as Indonesian president looks increasingly shaky
- Correspondence on the impact of depleted uranium on Vieques
2001-03-12
2001-03-13
- How Bush's tax cut plan favors the rich
- Political impasse as Japanese prime minister denies intention to resign
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Japan government package fails to win support
- The dispute in Germany over the generation of '68
- Fijian chiefs split over political crisis
- Bush tax cut campaign piles lie upon lie
- US auto industry slump leads to more job losses
2001-03-14
- Reports document the impact of US welfare reform
- Lecciones de la historia: las elecciones del 2000 y el nuevo "conflicto irreprimible": preguntas y respuestas
- Lecciones de la historia: las elecciones del 2000 y el nuevo "conflicto irreprimible"
- US has highest childhood poverty rate of industrialized countries
- Former US Secretary of State Baker presses for deal on Western Sahara
- US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
- Stock markets take a "fundamental" hit
- Fifty Chinese children killed in school fireworks explosion
2001-03-15
- British ban on LTTE strengthens Sinhalese extremists in Sri Lanka
- A new round of school shootings in the US
- US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Trade barriers go up as foot and mouth disease spreads to France
- Private school enrolments rise at expense of public schools
- Berlin retrospective devoted to the films of Fritz Lang
2001-03-16
- Indian government hands down a budget to please big business
- Germany: Christian Democratic leader seeks ban on political activity by asylum-seekers
- Nineteen US death row inmates executed so far this year
- Australian dollar falls below 50 US cents amid growing signs of recession
- Letters to the WSWS
- Fighting in Macedonia threatens wider Balkan conflict
2001-03-17
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean president boasts to US investors of crackdown on Daewoo workers
- France: First round in local elections reveals political turmoil
- Britain: Teachers take industrial action over staff shortages
- Correspondence on global recessionary trends
- US Senate passes bankruptcy "reform"
2001-03-19
2001-03-20
- US stock market slide: a turning point in American and world politics
- Further court delay to Sri Lankan legal challenge of film ban
- US: third major Amtrak accident in three months
- Once more, the emperor's new clothes
- Workers Struggles
- Respiratory physician calls for mass screening of asbestos victims
- Socialist Equality Party of Germany holds memorial meeting to honour Ernst Schwarz
- Continuing government cover-up of asbestos health disaster in Australia
- Arms corruption scandal erupts in South Africa
2001-03-21
- Middle class voters desert Liberal government in Australian by-election
- The flawed legacy of Scottish popular historian John Prebble
- Italian elections set for May 13
- US, Japan interest rate cuts point to global problems
- Letters on US politics
- Why did the US media black out the Civil Rights Commission report on the Florida vote?
2001-03-22
- Britain: Unions agree to Vauxhall/GM restructuring programme
- Tuberculosis on the rise in the Washington DC area
- Sri Lanka's budget: hoping for peace and planning for war
- Week-long military revolt shakes Papua New Guinea government
- Western powers reject NATO intervention against Albanian insurgency in Macedonia
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Britain: Vauxhall worker condemns restructuring agreement
- What underlies the energy crisis in California?
2001-03-23
- Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka appeal for support for their release
- China's optimistic economic plans undermined by looming global recession
- Nigeria's fuel protests gather support
- Right wing in German CDU senses new opportunities
- Germany: Green party moves further to the right
- France: Government parties experience substantial losses in local elections
- Britain: Foot and mouth disease "an epidemic waiting to happen"
- Nothing to boast about
2001-03-24
- US Supreme Court strips workers of right to sue for discrimination
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- "New wave of pessimism" about US economy, as job cuts deepen
- Indian government reeling after website exposes high-level arms procurement corruption
- British Telecom confronts falling share prices and £30bn debt
- Just how important is ethnic identity?
- Union pay case will entrench poverty level wages for Australian workers
2001-03-26
2001-03-27
- UWS students condemn lack of resources
- Students protest lack of funding at University of Western Sydney
- Britain: Report links CJD cluster to local farming and butchery practices
- The 73rd Academy Awards: Hollywood displays its wares
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Air Line Pilots Association strikes Comair
- Australian-sponsored Bougainville settlement breaks down
2001-03-28
- Sri Lankan plantation unions shut down wage campaign to forestall government crisis
- US prison population to reach a record two million by year's end
- Bill 112: the Ontario Tory government and the McMichael Art Gallery
- Correspondence on economic recession in the US
- US campaign finance reform: the substance behind the "democratic" hype
- Bosnia-Herzegovina faces dissolution
- Argentina: Congress grants Cavallo emergency powers
2001-03-29
- Spanish government imposes labour reforms
- Solomon Islands faces economic and social disintegration
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Reports reveal systematic abuse in Australia's refugee detention centres
- New York: Forced labor program for tenants
- Letters on the Academy Awards
- California to hike electricity rates by 40 percent
2001-03-30
- Acclamation of new Quebec premier underscores crisis in separatist movement
- Ralph Nader's political olive branch to Bush
- Kenya: School fire kills at least 59 students
- Japanese insurance firm collapses and more could follow
- Indonesian president moves one step closer to impeachment
- Germany: Record abstentions in recent state elections
2001-03-31
- The limitations of Ed Harris's Pollock
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Job cuts continue as US economic growth slows to lowest rate in five years
- Israel steps up military offensive against Palestinians
- Britain: Calls mount for Blair to delay general election due to foot and mouth crisis
- New report suggests link between power lines and risk of childhood leukemia
- Veteran Indian Trotskyist dies in Calcutta, aged 82
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